Photo credit: PTI UNITED NATIONS: India has asserted that any reform of the United Nations Security Council not accompanied by expansion in the permanent category with veto would perpetuate existing imbalance and inequities in the UN organ.Addressing the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) meeting on Security Council reforms on Tuesday, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador…
File photo: PM Modi (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday wrote about women’s empowerment on social media ahead of the special session of Parliament.In a post on X, the Prime Minister said the country is set to take a “historic step” in empowering women as lawmakers prepare to discuss an…
NEW DELHI: Noting that it is the honour which is the most important thing for a defence personnel, Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that a septuagenarian former Indian Air Force pilot, who had to face an ignominious exit from the service 33 years back, be now given a farewell with honour as his dismissal was…
NEW DELHI: “The most difficult part for a constitutional court is to give a ruling whether a centuries-old belief of millions of devotees is right or wrong,” said CJI Surya Kant on Wednesday as the nine-judge constitution bench under him continued hearings on whether the court can be arbiter on faith-related matters, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.Justice…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday took cognisance of charges against businessman Robert Vadra in a money laundering case linked to the Shikohpur land deal in Gurgaon, directing him and eight other accused to appear on May 16, reports Koushiki Saha.ED’s prosecution complaint (equivalent to a chargesheet), filed in July 2025, characterised the deal…
NEW DELHI: Around 12 lakh households across 11 states and Union Territories have self-enumerated so far for the houselisting operations (HLO) phase of Census 2027. More than half of these households availed of the self-enumeration facility in the past four-five days.With the conclusion of the 15-day self-enumeration window on Wednesday across the Andaman and Nicobar…
Kolkata/Darjeeling: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday made a slew of promises targeted at north Bengal on Wednesday, including the withdrawal of “false” cases against Gorkha representatives and the inclusion of the Rajbanshi language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, which recognises official languages in India.He said the Centre was already working on…
NEW DELHI: Opposition parties Tuesday said they will vote against the constitutional amendment on delimitation that proposes to raise Lok Sabha strength from 543 to 850, calling it a “dangerous” move that could reduce the share of southern, north-western, north-eastern and smaller states. Congress neta Rahul Gandhi termed it an “anti-national act”. The parties also…
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah on Wednesday refused to cut the ribbon at an event in Srinagar as it bore colours of the national flag. “Yeh nahin kaat sakte (We cannot cut this),” he said, turning to deputy CM Surinder Choudhary, who agreed.Omar was inaugurating the handicraft department’s ‘Know Your Artisans’ event at…
